Happy Friday. I’m getting ready to be away for the weekend doing the bike ride. Thanks to very generous people I’m up to $4,052 raised, 21st our of 362 riders.
There isn’t much for Jays news. Jamie Campbell is reporting that Adam Macko is being recalled from Buffalo. No word on who is being shipped out.
The team is three games under .500 and I don’t think I’d bet that they’ll ever be over .500 the rest of this season.
Ernie Clement has been named to the All-Star team receiving the most votes of any
AL player, which is pretty cool. And there will likely be more Blue Jays on the AL team. There are Jays ‘finalists’ at every position. Most of them clearly don’t deserve to be All Stars, but often, when you let people vote, you don’t get the best candidate winning. Obviously, we vote a lot up here in Canada.
The Mets and Bo Bichette are in Toronto on the weekend and they have fired their manager. The Mets are 34-47, deep in last place in the NL East and 9.5 games back of the Wild Card. That and a $358 million payroll (and a $124 million luxury tax bill) will get a manager fired. So Carlos Mendoza is looking for a new job and Andy Green gets the job of trying to get the team going.
I hate when we play against teams who have just fired their manager. The players seem to work hard for the new chief.
The owners have made a new proposal for the players, which they know will be rejected. In it:
- New contracts for free agents can only be five years long for guys switching teams (and for $202 million at the most) and six years for players staying with their team (and for $265 million at the most).
- No deferred money allowed anymore.
- Qualifying offers will disappear.
- Players will be able to become free agents at age 30 if they have five years of MLB playing time.
- Minimum salary will go up to $1 million for players with two or more years of service time.
I always wonder why owners think they have to protect themselves from themselves but that’s where we are.
Have a good weekend
